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enCommunity Activists Question Timing Of Grand Jury Announcementhttp://kenw.org/post/community-activists-question-timing-grand-jury-announcement
For weeks, Ferguson police and local leaders met with community groups and activists to work out a plan for the aftermath of the grand jury's decision whether to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.<p>But any results of that effort quickly vanished following <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/24/366370100/grand-jury-reaches-decision-in-michael-brown-case">Monday night's announcement</a> as <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/25/366452769/ferguson-businesses-burn-crowds-confront-police-in-overnight-chaos">buildings burnedTue, 25 Nov 2014 22:16:00 +0000Laura Sullivan49868 at http://kenw.orgCommunity Activists Question Timing Of Grand Jury AnnouncementLast 'Angola 3' Inmate's Conviction Should Be Thrown Out, Court Sayshttp://kenw.org/post/last-angola-3-inmates-conviction-should-be-thrown-out-court-says
A federal appeals court has <a href="http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/13/13-30266-CV0.pdf">ruled</a> that a man who has spent about 40 years in solitary confinement in a Louisiana prison should have his conviction overturned.<p>Albert Woodfox, the only member of the so-called Angola 3 still incarcerated, was convicted of the 1972 murder of a young prison guard named Brent Miller. Woodfox was found guilty along with fellow inmate Herman Wallace.<p>Wallace's conviction was overturned last year as his health was failing.Fri, 21 Nov 2014 21:11:00 +0000Laura Sullivan49715 at http://kenw.orgKeep Your Head Up: 'Text Neck' Takes A Toll On The Spinehttp://kenw.org/post/keep-your-head-text-neck-takes-toll-spine
"Text neck," the posture formed by leaning over a cellphone while reading and texting, is a big problem, according to the author of a newly published study in the National Library of Medicine.<p>Kenneth K.Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:29:00 +0000Laura Sullivan49670 at http://kenw.orgKeep Your Head Up: 'Text Neck' Takes A Toll On The Spine'Flying Doughnuts': Airbus Files Patent For A New Kind Of Planehttp://kenw.org/post/flying-doughnuts-airbus-files-patent-new-kind-plane
Airbus has filed a patent for a new plane that looks decidedly more Star Trek Enterprise than airplane.<p><em>The Financial Times</em> <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ba80c518-6492-11e4-b219-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3JLF97ms7">dubbed it</a> "flying doughnuts."<p>According to the <a href="http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=US&NR=2014319274A1&KC=A1&FT=D&ND=3&date=20141030&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP">patent application</a>, the craft would address a long-standing problem for plane designers — pressurized cabins, which stress planes on the front and back ends anMon, 17 Nov 2014 19:41:00 +0000Laura Sullivan49547 at http://kenw.org'Flying Doughnuts': Airbus Files Patent For A New Kind Of PlaneNBA Commissioner Thinks Gambling On Games Should Be Legalhttp://kenw.org/post/nba-commissioner-thinks-gambling-games-should-be-legal
"I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated."<p>That's what NBA Commissioner Adam Silver writes in a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/opinion/nba-commissioner-adam-silver-legalize-sports-betting.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=3">New York Times op-ed</a> that argues for the legalization of gambling on professional sports, which he says is "currently illegal in most of the United Fri, 14 Nov 2014 18:54:00 +0000Laura Sullivan49459 at http://kenw.orgNBA Commissioner Thinks Gambling On Games Should Be Legal